How To Crochet A Wig Cap

Hey everyone, I'm Liz, and today I'm going to show you how to make a wig cap to add to your crochet dolls.. You can use these wig caps to sew onto the scalp of your dolls to prevent the color of the scalp from showing, through the hair of your doll.. Some things you'll need for this tutorial are a crochet hook. I'll, be using a size, E (, 3.5 mm ), Some Aran or Worsted weight yarn in the same or a similar color to the doll's hair. I'll, be using Black Aran weight yarn from Red Heart. For these dolls. And Plum Wine worsted weight yarn from Caron. Simply Soft for these dolls. Just make sure to get as close as possible to the color of hair you'll be using.. You'Ll need a doll to sew the wig cap onto., You can click the link at the top of the screen for my curvy doll tutorial or look in the description below for my upper body. Doll and my basic doll. Tutorials. You'll also need a pair of scissors to cut off your yarn, A yarn needle to sew in your ends and to sew the wig cap onto your doll.. And if you like, you can use a stitch marker or bobby pin to keep track of the first stitch of your row. And after you've made your wig cap. You'Ll need to add yarn to it to make up your doll's hair.. You can find all my doll, hair tutorials in the description below, So I'm going to begin by creating a magic circle.. If you want, you could start by just chaining 3 and slip stitching, because the hair is going to cover up most of the wig cap when it's finished, so you probably won't see the hole in the middle of the wig cap., But I just prefer to do Double magic circles. So that's what I'm going to do. So to create a double magic circle. I'M going to wrap my yarn around my fingers twice to create 2 loops. And then into those 2 loops, I'm going to pull up a loop. And chain 2., And that is going to count as my first stitch. Now. I want to have 6 stitches total. So I'm going to single crochet 5 more times into my 2 loops., So I've gotten to the end of 5, more stitches.! So now I'm going to close my magic circle.! First, I'm going to pull on my tail a little bit so that I have 1 bigger loop and 1 smaller loop.. Then I'm going to find that smaller loop and pull it from the side, that's closest to the tail until the other loop closes completely. And then I'm going to pull on my tail until this loop closes.. Ok, now I'm going to begin to increase each row until the size of my circle is about the same as the top of the head of my doll., I'm going to increase 6 times per row.. So in this row I'm going to increase every stitch of the row since I have 6 stitches total.. First, I'm going to find that chain that counted as the first stitch in this row. And I'm going to single crochet into that chain., Then into the same stitch. I'M going to single crochet again to increase. And I'm going to continue to increase every stitch until the end of the row. So I'm going to single crochet 2 times into each stitch.. Now I've finished my first row of increase., I'm going to increase for 2 more rows. In this row. I'M going to increase every 2nd stitch once again, so that I'm increasing 6 times in the row.. You can continue to increase for as long as you like. In the next row. You would increase every 3rd stitch, then in the next every 4th stitch, then every 5th and so on. Just continue to increase 6 times per row until your circle is about the same width as the top of your doll's head.. So I've done the 1st st. Now. I'M going to single crochet 2 times into the 2nd st. And I'm going to continue to increase every 2nd stitch all the way around the row.. Then I'm going to do another row of increase and in the next row I'm going to increase every 3rd stitch of the row.. Ok, I've done my last row of increase, and now my circle is about the same width as the head of my doll.. Now I'm going to single crochet for a couple of rows to lengthen the wig cap., I'm going to go on for 6 rows, but you can make the doll's wig cap longer or shorter, depending on the look you want.. Ok, I've gotten to the end of 6. More rows. So now I'm going to end my doll's wig cap.. So to do that, I'm just going to slip stitch to the first stitch of my row. And then I'm going to cut off a long tail of my yarn and I'm going to use that tail to sew the wig caps to my dolls.. Now all the wig caps are sewn to all the dolls.. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you did push the like button or share it on social media.. If you want to see my curly doll, hair tutorial click, the link at the end of the video or check in the description below., And if you want to see more tutorials like this in the future subscribe to my channel and I'll, see you all next time. Bye